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Researching the critical concerns of the small-business owner
The NFIB Research Foundation is one of the leading sources of information about small business in the United States. A 501(c)(3) organization, the foundation conducts research about policy-related issues as well as the business practices and economic impact of small firms through its Small Business Economic Trends reports and other economic research studies. The empirically based information about small business, the product of more than 30 years of research, is available to policymakers, small-business owners, scholars and the public. The foundation is not a grant-making organization.
Meet the NFIB Research Foundation staff
Meet the NFIB Research Foundation staff
NFIB Healthcare Policy Survey
NFIB's Small Business Healthcare Survey, the most recent, comprehensive small business healthcare data available, identifies cost as the single most important problem facing the health system today.
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NFIB's Small Business Healthcare Survey, the most recent, comprehensive small business healthcare data available, identifies cost as the single most important problem facing the health system today.
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Small-Business Economic Trends (SBET)
The NFIB Research Foundation has collected Small-Business Economic
Trends data with quarterly surveys since 1974 and monthly surveys since
1986. The sample is drawn from the membership files of NFIB. The report
is released the second Tuesday of each month.
Small-Business Conditions
The NFIB Small-Business ConditionsSM state-specific reports are developed from
surveys of small-business owners in selected states.
The quarterly surveys are designed to determine the condition
of a state's small-business economy. Results are released
on the first day of the month following the survey's completion.
Regulatory Impact Model (RIM)
The Regulatory Impact Model (RIM) compares a baseline economic
forecast of the U.S. -- one without a new regulation -- to a forecast of
the economy when the regulation is introduced. The RIM consists of two parts:
a regulatory interface and a seven region inter-industry econometric forecasting
model called REMI, leased from Regional Economic Models, Inc. The RIM combines
the calculation of direct , indirect and induced economic costs.
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Crystalline Silica Rule Would Cost More Than $3 Billion and Over 100,000 Jobs
04/ 13/ 2004 -
The Spread of Regulations: From the Federal Government to Private Business
12/ 08/ 2003 -
The Lead Reporting Rule: Another Adverse Impact on Small Business Owners
11/ 04/ 2002 - Summary of NFIB Regulatory Impact Model
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Small Business Poll
The National Small Business Poll is a series of regularly published
business survey reports based on data collected from national samples of
small business employers. Eight business survey reports are produced annually.
The Poll is designed to address small business-oriented topics about which
little is known but interest is high. Each survey report treats different
subject matter.
Publications
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Small Business Problems and Priorities (1.3 MB, PDF)
The array of potential problems presented small business owners for evaluation has undergone minor changes over the years to account for changes in business conditions, technologies, and expressed concerns. The publications begin with an overview of results from the total population of small business owner respondents. They then examine the most important problems, the least important problems, problems on which there is most and least agreement, the relative importance of various problems clustered by topic, changes in ranking from prior surveys, etc. -
NFIB Survey of Small-Business Owners' Attitudes and Knowledge of HSAs (639 KB, PDF)
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Report: What Do Users of Private Company Financial Statements Want? (151 KB, PDF)
This NFIB-sponsored report summarizes a series of interviews with preparers of financial statements and commercial and investment bankers that sought to answer the question: What do users of private company financial statements want?
Here's a useful resource for research related to small business, economic and policy issues:
NBER
This think tank offers in-depth analysis of national economic trends, including working papers on small business issues. It is also responsible for officially identifying the beginning and end of a recession or expansion.
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This think tank offers in-depth analysis of national economic trends, including working papers on small business issues. It is also responsible for officially identifying the beginning and end of a recession or expansion.
View all online resources
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